Tag: Larry Burrows

We’re Just Sayin: Fifty Years On…

Fifty Years On…

I stumble a bit, me, the former Math major, when I try and do the ‘math.’ Last fall was fifty years: I arrived in Vietnam in October 1…

Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2021/02/fifty-years-on.html

When I told John I was heading to Vietnam, he said to me… “do a story for me – call it Children of War…” I paused, then bagan to ask, “John, what do you want me to do… ?” and before I could finish the sentence, he said “No, no! You tell ME the Story. YOU’re the journalist, your pictures should show ME the story.” Over the decades since, I have been immensely glad for that teaching moment.

February 9, 2021
Mythical power: Understanding photojournalism in the Vietnam War

Mythical power: Understanding photojournalism in the Vietnam War – David Campbell

Photojournalism in the Vietnam War is often said to have had the power to change the course of the conflict. But this power is mythical.

via David Campbell: http://www.david-campbell.org/2013/01/31/mythical-power-understanding-photojournalism-in-vietnam-war/

“This is significant for photojournalism’s understanding of its historical role and potential power. Many of the visual icons we now associate with the war – the photographs of Larry Burrows, Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin and others – were either rejected by the American media, published after the event, or were simply unrepresentative of the majority coverage.
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January 31, 2013
Three War Photographers: Feel Fear, Keep Going

Link: Three War Photographers: Feel Fear, Keep Going – LightBox

Ralph Morse, Larry Burrows, James Nachtwey

When other people run away from danger, they run toward it. They go into battle armed with nothing but courage. Like everyone else, they experience fear — but unlike everyone else, they keep going.

May 28, 2012
We're Just Sayin: To Photography, and Photographers

To Photography, and Photographers

I’m in Amsterdam, participating in the jury process for this year’s World Press Photo awards, probably the Premier awards in the field of ph…

Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2011/02/to-photography-and-photographers.html

As they started to get aboard, I realized there would probably not be room, but that made no real sense to me, as I was working for TIME, and did absolutely NOT want to lose this scoop to the others there. They represented the main news organizations, Henri Huet of AP, Kent Potter of UPI, Larry Burrows from LIFE, and Keisaburo Shimamoto from Newsweek. Between them something like 35 years of experience in Viet Nam. So I kept trying to harangue the VN Army major who’d been tasked with taking care of the journalists. And the clearer it became that I might not get on that bird, the more worked up my pleas.

February 3, 2011
Four Photojournalists Killed During Vietnam War Come Home For Burial

Remains from the crash site where four photojournalists were killed when their helicopter went down in Laos during the Vietnam war will be buried on Thursday April 3, 2008, during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington.

On February 10, 1971, photographers Henri Huet, 43, of the Associated Press, Larry Burrows, 44, of Life magazine, Kent Potter, 23, of United Press International, and Keisaburo Shimamoto, 34, of Newsweek were killed their South Vietnamese helicopter lost its way over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and was shot down by a North Vietnamese 37-mm anti-aircraft gun. Three of Saigon’s soldiers and the four-man flight crew also perished in the midair explosion.

Check it out here.

March 31, 2008